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Difficulties will always come together. This is the rule. Adding insult to injury is the way of heaven and a test for mankind.
The wisdom of the Chinese people is reflected in all aspects. A casual proverb in traditional culture contains a mysterious philosophy.
There is a saying in Water Margin: Blessings come in pairs, misfortunes never come alone. It means that good things will not come continuously, but misfortunes will follow.
In 1949, Western scholar Edward Murphy may have been inspired by this sentence and summed up a rule: "What can go wrong will eventually go wrong." It is also known as the famous Murphy's Law , which together with Parkinson's Law and Peter's Principle is known as the three major discoveries of Western culture in the twentieth century.
Chinese traditional culture is good at emotional expression, while modern Western culture is good at defining and finding rules. From time to time, people's names are used to gain naming rights, and there are overwhelming laws and theorems.
From the perspective of cultural communication, the cultural characteristics of the West are obviously a strong expansion style, while traditional Chinese culture pays more attention to self-restraint and is a typical restrained style.
Whether it is a Chinese proverb or Murphy's Law, everything that European countries have encountered since entering 2022 has confirmed the reality of the metaphysical law that "misfortunes never come singly" and "what will go wrong will definitely go wrong."
In just eight months, Europe has already experienced many natural disasters and humanitarian crises such as the new crown epidemic, monkeypox epidemic, war, cold wave, food shortage, high temperature, drought and so on.
1. The Ming Dynasty
Seeing everything that Europe has experienced, the first thing that commentators from the Han and Tang think tanks thought of was the Little Ice Age experienced in the late Ming Dynasty .
That’s what blessings are like, misfortunes never come singly!
We often see in movies that "in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs took over power, harmed loyal people, and the people were in dire straits." In fact, what really caused the people to live in poverty was half natural disasters and man-made disasters. Man-made disasters were mainly due to the greed of the civil servants and had little to do with the eunuchs.
It was Li Zicheng 's peasant uprising army that captured Beijing and overthrew the Ming Dynasty. The famine has caused the people to have no harvest, various rebel armies have risen up, and plagues are rampant, with locusts plague continuing!
" History of the Ming Dynasty " records: During the seventeen years of Chongzhen 's reign, the natural disasters that occurred in the Ming Dynasty almost covered people's cognition, mainly including droughts, locust plagues, floods, plague, hurricanes , hail, earthquakes, and blizzards. wait.
It is unimaginable that the earthquake turned out to be the trigger that brought down the Ming Dynasty.
According to statistics, in the 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, there were as many as 165 earthquakes recorded in history. The deadliest earthquake in human history was the 1556 Jiajingguanzhong Earthquake.
On the winter night of January 23, 1556 AD (the 34th year of Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty), a huge earthquake with magnitude 8 and intensity 11 degrees broke out. Earthquakes were recorded starting from Nanjing in the east, Jingyuan in Gansu in the west, Baode in Shaanxi in the north, and Liuyang in Hunan in the south. The earthquake caused more than 500,000 direct casualties, and the ensuing plague, severe cold, and famine caused hundreds of thousands more deaths, for a total of 830,000 deaths!
The reason why natural disasters are so frequent is that it was during the "Ming and Qing Little Ice Age". This Little Ice Age lasted for three hundred years, and was mainly characterized by cold winters and droughts in summer!
During the Chongzhen period, the lowest temperature in North China was below minus 40 degrees Celsius, and the possibility of people freezing to death was extremely high.
Historical records show that except for the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties periods, the Ming Dynasty had less rainfall than any other dynasty, so the number of droughts was the highest.
Drought and locust plague are inseparable, and the cold and dry air provides a breeding ground for the spread of plague! Disaster victims will eat anything to satisfy their hunger, and rats are certainly a delicacy.
In the sixth year of Chongzhen, the plague broke out in Shanxi and spread to the surrounding areas. Half of the population in Shanxi, Henan and Hebei provinces died due to plague.In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the plague was introduced into the city of Beijing. On average, thousands of people died every day, and it was finally out of control. "Records of Chongzhen" records: There was a great epidemic in the capital, with tens of thousands of people dying every day. According to later statistics, 7.8 million people died from the plague during the Chongzhen period.
The Little Ice Age in the last few decades of the Ming Dynasty brought various disasters one after another and completely destroyed the iron-blooded Ming Dynasty. This is the true historical logic of the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
2. EU calamity
Looking at it, today’s disaster in Europe has just begun, a bit like the disastrous state of the Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
The EU seems to be facing similar challenges as the Ming Dynasty.
Commentators from Han and Tang think tanks believe that the fate of the EU is very likely to collapse under the impact of successive disasters like the Ming Dynasty.
The cold wave of war, food shortage, high temperature and drought have struck continuously within half a year. Politicians in various EU countries are still immersed in their lofty dream and have not been able to wake up!
Let's see what Europe has experienced this year!
War: Under the careful design of the United States and NATO , the Russo-Ukrainian war broke out on February 24 and continues to this day. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine and sanctions against Russia have caused turbulence in the European financial market, the withdrawal of capital, the weakening of the euro, and high energy prices. The European economy has been hit hard, and the economic decline of EU countries has worsened the economy that was already suffering from the COVID-19 epidemic.
Cold wave: In early April 2022, a cold wave swept across most of Europe. Temperatures in Britain, France and Germany broke the extreme value, and France set a record for the lowest temperature in April since 1947.
The sudden cooling is having a negative impact on agriculture and exacerbating Europe's energy crisis. Due to EU sanctions against Russia, oil prices and natural gas prices in EU countries have increased, causing daily heating difficulties.
In 2021, 75% of European crude oil will be imported, with a total annual import volume of 476 million tons, of which 30% will come from Russia; in 2021, 60% of European natural gas will rely on imports, with a total annual import volume of 326.1 billion cubic meters, more than 40% of which will be imported. Natural gas comes from Russia.
Due to the natural gas crisis, German people have spontaneously hoarded firewood for the winter. Burning firewood for heating will become the new normal.
High temperature and drought: In the summer of 2022, EU countries have just experienced "the hottest July in recorded meteorological records. Under the attack of the heat wave, Europe is facing a large-scale drought unprecedented in 500 years, and some rivers have dried up and shrunk. The "Hunger Stone" that has been lying at the bottom of many rivers in Europe for hundreds of years has resurfaced due to drought. On the stone is inscribed: "If you see me, you will cry." "This can be considered a warning about drought by previous generations!
The European Commission's Joint Research Center warned that Europe may encounter the worst drought in about 500 years, and nearly half of the territory of the European Union and the United Kingdom is at risk of drought. The United Kingdom is known for its mild climate, but The UK National Water Report shows that England has just experienced its driest July since 1935 ht. ml3
The western, central and southern regions of the European continent have not experienced significant rainfall in the past two months and are experiencing an unprecedented drought.
Under the impact of factors such as energy crisis, high inflation, repeated epidemics, and tightening of monetary policy, continued high temperature and drought have a negative impact on the economy. The damage caused to the European economy cannot be underestimated. It can be said that there are many disasters. OK.
Food famine: Some countries on the planet have a surplus of food, and there are still countless people starving to death in Africa! Although the food famine in Europe does not kill people, it still seriously affects people's lives. . Extreme heat not only reduces food production, but also causes rivers to dry up, affecting trade and transportation.
Russia and Ukraine are the breadbaskets of Europe. After the war between the two countries, the food sources of EU countries were greatly affected. Food imports decreased and food prices rose sharply.
Europe was not like China. The same habit of storing grain will make you helpless when encountering difficulties in importing grain.
According to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the per capita food waste ranking of countries around the world is 150 kilograms of food per capita in Germany, 106 kilograms in France, and 74.7 kilograms in the United Kingdom. According to the USDA, 30% of food in the United States is wasted.
China wastes 44 kilograms of food per capita, which is much less than in Western developed countries.
Epidemic: The World Health Organization issued the highest level alert on the monkeypox epidemic on July 23, announcing that the monkeypox epidemic in many countries and regions around the world has constituted a "public health emergency of international concern."
On July 29, the Spanish Ministry of Health confirmed that the first death case of monkeypox occurred in the country. This is the first death case in Europe in this monkeypox epidemic. Research by Spanish researchers shows that 40% of monkeypox infection cases are severe and require medical treatment.
Monkeypox virus is a close relative of smallpox virus, and infection can be fatal to a certain extent. In Europe, where the current monkeypox epidemic is more severe, the number of confirmed cases is approaching 20,000.
The COVID-19 epidemic is still ongoing, and the monkeypox epidemic has spread rapidly.
3. How can Europe, which has opened the door to disaster through reverse behavior, resolve the crisis? How can the EU assume its leadership responsibility?
1. Sanctions on Russia
After the conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out, supporting Ukraine against Russia has become politically correct in the Western world.
In order to crack down on Russia, the United States and Europe immediately kicked Russia out of the international funds clearing system , confiscated Russian property, froze Russian foreign exchange reserves, completely banned EU member states from trading with Russia, and suspended the import of Russian coal and oil. sanctions.
"Now that the European Union's coal ban on Russia has taken effect, and Europe has recently suffered an extreme heat wave, Europe's power supply will only become more tense."
"The EU helped the United States provoke the Ukraine crisis, which in itself is a self-inflicted act." It is equivalent to cutting off an arm to wave the flag for the United States. "
The EU sanctions Russia for both historical and practical reasons. The fundamental reason is that it does not want Russia to be strong.
However, Russia has strongly launched oil rubles and foreign exchange earnings. It was twice as high as the same period last year. Instead, the EU fell into an energy crisis and faced the risk of economic recession due to sanctions.
Facts have proved that even though Russia is at the bottom of Europe with the worst governance, the weakest economy, and the most backward military, the 27 EU countries have. Even together we cannot defeat Russia. Sri Lanka.
The vast territory, abundant energy and food, and massive military equipment are the hard currency in the future troubled times.
. Interference in China's internal affairs.
No matter how difficult the world is, we will never change our true nature as a villain. On August 3, 2022, the Foreign Ministers of the Group of Seven and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy issued a statement stating that China has taken measures in response to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. This action may raise tensions and cause regional instability. We call on China not to unilaterally change the status quo by force and to resolve cross-strait differences through peaceful means. In this statement, the G7 and EU foreign ministers also made a note in brackets about the one-China policy. Note: Where applicable
. Facts have proved that in the consciousness of the white people in the United States and Europe, there is no reason in the world. What they agree with is reasonable, and what they do not agree with is unreasonable. If any country wants to persuade the white people in the United States and Europe through reasoning. It's wishful thinking, because truth is just a cover, strength is the essence htm. l3
3. The two evil forces have joined forces.
Starting from August 15, Germany will dispatch multiple fighter planes to the Asia-Pacific region to participate in the joint air military exercise code-named "Rapid Pacific 2022". This is the second world war exercise since . After the World War , Germany sent its fighter jets to the Indo-Pacific region for the first time. Pictures and texts published by Germany's "Daily Mirror" showed that when flying to South Korea, the German Air Force would pass through the Taiwan Strait and hope to do so. "Showing strength" on this trip to Asia.
With the connivance of the Anglo-Saxon and Jewish capital groups, we are once again delighted to see the resurgence of the two evil forces of German Nazis and Japanese militarism, and they have joined forces again.
4. Ignorant Europe
After the Russia-Ukraine war broke out, German Prime Minister Scholz called on the German people to cooperate with sanctions against Russia.
In order to achieve his political goals, Scholz asked the people to eat less meat to avoid relying on Russian food, bathe less to avoid relying on Russian natural gas, use less air conditioning to avoid relying on Russian energy, and wear more clothes to keep out the cold in winter to demonstrate to Russia.
As a result, German people began to store firewood to prepare for burning firewood for the winter.
Recently, German Chancellor Scholz called for reducing over-reliance on China!
Good suggestion and good idea! I wonder what price the German people will pay?
The Germanic who rose up after Bismarck has now been completely domesticated and become a loyal dog of the Anglo-Saxon ?
is so sad!
The Europe we see seems not to be the 21st century, but the Middle Ages, where obscurantism and ignorance rule Europeans.
Today’s European Union has become a willing lackey of the Anglo-Saxons.
China and Russia have repeatedly called for EU strategic independence, but now it seems basically impossible.
The core problem is that Germany, as the engine leader of the European Union, has been controlled by the United States for 77 years. The political arena has long been deeply penetrated, the people have been brainwashed by the capital-controlled media, and anti-intellectualism has become a prominent doctrine.
The EU has no future.
Regarding this, the Eastern world can only laugh and say nothing.
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